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Murder Defendant Acts as Attorney
August 21, 2008Six years ago, in Montgomery County and parts of Howard, Prince George's and the District, prosecutors say Anthony Kelly raped two women, killed three people, stole five cars and broke into a gun shop.
House Bill Would End D.C. Registration Rules
August 21, 2008D.C. officials are trying to beat back an effort by some lawmakers to send a bill to the House floor that would dramatically weaken the city's gun laws.
Former Surgeon General Julius Richmond
August 21, 2008 Julius B. Richmond, 91, the first director of Head Start and a former U.S. surgeon general who spent four decades campaigning against cigarette smoking, died July 27 at his home in Brookline, Mass. He had cancer.
Opinion Focus
August 21, 2008 Washington Post opinion columnist Eugene Robinson was online Tuesday, July 29 at 1 p.m. ET to discuss his recent
New Trial Is Granted In Toddler's Slaying
August 21, 2008A Fairfax County judge has ordered a new trial for a man convicted of killing a 21-month-old boy because the man's lawyers were never told that his wife, who testified against him, was caught with marijuana the day before his trial.
D.C. Is Sued Again Over Handgun Rules
August 21, 2008The man who successfully challenged the D.C. handgun ban before the U.S. Supreme Court filed a second federal lawsuit yesterday, alleging that the District's new gun-registration system is burdensome and continues to unlawfully outlaw most semiautomatic pistols.
VIRGINIA BRIEFING
August 21, 2008
California to Begin Integrating Prisons for Men
August 21, 2008LANCASTER, Calif. -- Male prisoners in the nation's largest corrections system, long kept segregated by race in an effort to temper violence, will soon be sharing cells with inmates of other ethnicities.
WEEK IN REVIEW
August 21, 2008
The Week That Was
August 21, 2008News that appeared July 20-26 in The Washington Post that is of interest to readers
